Edgar siddons wilson



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR SIDDONS WILSON, OF STROUD, AND EBENEZER STEWART, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PROCESS OF MILLING SOAP.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 623,859, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed December 15,1897.

To all whom it nwty concern:

Be it known that we, EDGAR SIDDoNs WIL- SON, residing at Stroud, and EBENEZER STEW- ART, residing at London, England, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Soap, (for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 21,048, bearing date September 23, 1896,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to obtain a soap principally for toilet use which shall possess special emollient properties in which any excess of alkali which might damage the skin is neutralized and in which any excess of fatty matter present shall be in a condition in which it Will not be liable to turn rancid. For this purpose by the process technically known as milling We incorporate with soap prepared in any usual manner meal obtained by grinding linseed or other oil seeds or by grinding the cake or material left after such seeds have been pressed or otherwise treated to extract Serial No. 662,054- (No specimens.)

oil therefrom. The proportion of the seeds in the soap is preferably from two and a half to ten per cent. The oil in the meal neutralizes any excess of alkali in the soap and pro- Vides an excess of fatty matterin a condition not liable to rancidity.

The term oil-seeds as employed by us includes any oil producing nuts, such as almonds, ground-nuts, and the like. By the word meal in the claim we intend to cover ground oil-bearing seeds or the residue of such seeds after the oil has been partly extracted.

We claim The method of treating soap, consisting in milling the same with the meal of oil-bearing seeds; substantially as described.

EDGAR SIDDONS WVILSON. EBENEZER STEWART.

Witnesses:

HENRY CUTHBERT STRIDE, SYDNEY GEORGE ANTHONY. 

